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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Nov 21.
Published in final edited form as: JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2019 Aug 14;13(4):1055–1068. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2019.03.033

FIGURE 4.

FIGURE 4

Assessment of Coronary Plaque Characteristics on Magnetic Resonance

(A) High-intensity plaque in the proximal left anterior descending artery (yellow arrow) on noncontrast T1-weighted magnetic resonance. (B) T1-weighted images coregistered with magnetic resonance coronary angiogram, increased signal at site of high-intensity plaque (yellow arrow). (C) Kaplan-Meier curves comparing the probability of coronary events in patients with and without high-intensity plaque on noncontrast T1-weighted imaging. Adverse plaque characteristic conferred a higher incidence of adverse clinical events. Reproduced with permission from Noguchi et al. (86). CAD = coronary artery disease; PMR = plaque-to-myocardium signal intensity ratio.